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How do you pronounce this? Forge Joe? Forego? Forgeaux?

bovermyer 4y ago
The article provides an mp4 that answers this question: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4
- Kiro 4y ago
  No way anyone will pronounce it that way.
  - bovermyer 4y ago
    Now that I know how it's supposed to be pronounced, that's how I'll pronounce it. So I just invalidated your argument, lol.
    - Kiro 4y ago
      You did not. It's an expression and doesn't actually mean "not a single person on the planet". A few anomalies do not make it untrue. Also, you saying you will is not the same as doing it.
      - daniel-cussen 4y ago
      - F3nd0 4y ago
        Then again, you'd have to assume that people trying to follow official pronunciation are anomalies.
      - bovermyer 4y ago
        I was being playful, calm yourself.
  - msoucy 4y ago
    It's how I instinctively pronounced it, because I recognized it as being Esperanto-adjacent, so...
mym1990 4y ago
Something about a 'g' and a 'j' nearly side by side is really messing with my brain.
xdennis 4y ago
/for'd͡ʒe.jo/ It's Esperanto. It's supposed to be written "forĝejo" (forĝi=to forge, -ej-=place, -o=noun). The letter ĝ (for the dʒ sound, like Dj in Django, or J in John) is supposed to be written as gx without diacritics. But I assume "forgxejo" would have confused non-Esperantists even more.
- he_is_legend 4y ago
  So ... forjejo ?
  - F3nd0 4y ago
    Forjeyo, or rather For-Jay-(Y)o, I believe.
    - I_complete_me 4y ago
      To my ear (native English speaker) it sounds like: for j o
- F3nd0 4y ago
  Not exactly. The official way of substituting the circumflex is with ‘h’, not ‘x’, so it would be written as ‘forghejo’, which might actually guide English speakers to the correct pronunciation. (There are various systems to type without diacritics in Esperanto. Two of the most widely popular ones are to use the letters ‘h’ and ‘x’, and using either of those would be correct. But if one is to be regarded as the ‘default’ choice, it has to be the one with ‘h’, since that’s been codified in the language’s foundation since its early days.)
- demetrius 4y ago
  Another option would be "forghejo", that's how Zamenhof suggested replacing ĝ "Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally valid Esperanto words, and "forgejo" is a valid combination (even though it's hard to understand what "away-gay" should mean); compare "foriri" 'go away' or "forigi" 'do away with, remove' xD
joobus 4y ago
It is not a well-picked name.
Yuioup 4y ago
Fra-gi-lay

The article provides an mp4 that answers this question: https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4 https://forgejo.org/static/forgejo.mp4

Kiro 4y ago
No way anyone will pronounce it that way.
- bovermyer 4y ago
  Now that I know how it's supposed to be pronounced, that's how I'll pronounce it. So I just invalidated your argument, lol.
  - Kiro 4y ago
    You did not. It's an expression and doesn't actually mean "not a single person on the planet". A few anomalies do not make it untrue. Also, you saying you will is not the same as doing it.
    - daniel-cussen 4y ago
    - F3nd0 4y ago
      Then again, you'd have to assume that people trying to follow official pronunciation are anomalies.
    - bovermyer 4y ago
      I was being playful, calm yourself.
- msoucy 4y ago
  It's how I instinctively pronounced it, because I recognized it as being Esperanto-adjacent, so...

mym1990 4y ago

Something about a 'g' and a 'j' nearly side by side is really messing with my brain.

xdennis 4y ago

/for'd͡ʒe.jo/ It's Esperanto. It's supposed to be written "forĝejo" (forĝi=to forge, -ej-=place, -o=noun). The letter ĝ (for the dʒ sound, like Dj in Django, or J in John) is supposed to be written as gx without diacritics. But I assume "forgxejo" would have confused non-Esperantists even more.

he_is_legend 4y ago
So ... forjejo ?
- F3nd0 4y ago
  Forjeyo, or rather For-Jay-(Y)o, I believe.
  - I_complete_me 4y ago
    To my ear (native English speaker) it sounds like: for j o
F3nd0 4y ago
Not exactly. The official way of substituting the circumflex is with ‘h’, not ‘x’, so it would be written as ‘forghejo’, which might actually guide English speakers to the correct pronunciation. (There are various systems to type without diacritics in Esperanto. Two of the most widely popular ones are to use the letters ‘h’ and ‘x’, and using either of those would be correct. But if one is to be regarded as the ‘default’ choice, it has to be the one with ‘h’, since that’s been codified in the language’s foundation since its early days.)
demetrius 4y ago
Another option would be "forghejo", that's how Zamenhof suggested replacing ĝ "Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally valid Esperanto words, and "forgejo" is a valid combination (even though it's hard to understand what "away-gay" should mean); compare "foriri" 'go away' or "forigi" 'do away with, remove' xD

joobus 4y ago

It is not a well-picked name.

Yuioup 4y ago

Fra-gi-lay